She claimed that they had a second sexual encounter two weeks later in New Orleans, when they had intercourse without a condom as well as performing oral sex on each other.

Helm claims that a few days later an ‘unusual bump’ appeared on the inside of her cheek, before ‘an unusual bump the size of a green pea that was painful to the touch appeared on her vagina’.

In July, Helm learned that she had herpes, and claims to have suffered ‘extreme and debilitating mental, emotional and physical distress and anguish, humiliation and embarrassment’ as a result of the diagnosis. She is suing Usher for $20 million (£14.9m).